Pokémon Bank Gets North American Release Date

It’s happened to all of us: the dreaded erased or lost copy of a Pokémon game. Hundreds of hours of training, gone. It’s a terrible feeling. But with Pokémon Bank, you can save up to 3,000 pocket monsters online, and they’ll be protected. Today, Nintendo announced payment info and a release date for the app. Pokémon Bank will be available on the Nintendo eShop on December 27 and will cost a yearly fee of $4.99. Think of it as a pocket monster insurance policy.

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